The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them: inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. - Thomas Jefferson
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. - Abraham Maslow
Do you want to create a healthy family? Show love every day by listening, noticing the good, praising, touching, and holding true to your commitments. Grand gestures are fine, but in the long run, they count for less than the accumulation of small acts of love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
*All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Satchmo Armstrong
*Make a commitment to act on every generous impulse that arises in you. . . . Pray that your anxiety about your own life and possessions and about the future be lessened so that your generosity to others can become more and more fearless. - Andrew Harvey in The Direct Path
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up. - Barbara Bush
*Life is a verb. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
*I am not a thing - a noun. I am not flesh. At 85, I have taken in over a thousand tons of air, food, and water, which temporarily became my flesh and which progressively disassociated from me. You and I seem to be verbs - evolutionary processes. - R. Buckminster Fuller
Move forward instead of pulling back. Reject the very human reflex to turn away from the loved one who has hurt or upset you. Pulling back or striking back may feel like the right thing to do, but there is a better way. We have to dig to a deeper place in ourselves and muster greater courage. If we move toward the spouse whose words stung or the child who misbehaved, the payoff is always there. We find a love that would not have shown itself any other way. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; it is the mark of genius, since a good metaphor implies an eye for resemblance. - Aristotle
There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search your heart and see if he is wise who takes each turn: The way to do is to be. - Lao-Tsu
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. - Winnie the Pooh
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
*If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. - Bertrand Russell
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
There is a distance between believing the Truth and embodying that Truth. We may know that we are children of God with divine capacities, but until we act on that belief, it remains a foggy awareness. Using spiritual practices moves us from believing in God to becoming aware of the reality of God moving in and through us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein
*My wife and I periodically try to engage in a complaining fast. For a week at a time, we try to refrain from all whining and complaining. . . . Doing so makes it easier to become conscious of things that are going well in your life. - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in The Book of Jewish Values
Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - Georges Duhamel (1884-1966), French writer and physician, in The Heart's Domain
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. - Tim McGraw
*Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
*Look at the world through soft eyes. Hard eyes distinguish and judge, noting the differences between ourselves and others. Soft eyes discern instead our commonality, the web of life that weaves itself through all humanity and nature. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Make me sweet again, Fragrant and fresh and wild, And thankful for any small event. – Rumi
*Jewish teachings regard wasting another person's time as a kind of stealing. . . . Routinely keeping other people waiting turns you into a thief. - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in The Book of Jewish Values
If you really do wish to alter your life, if you really do wish to change yourself-to become a different person altogether in the sight of God and man-if you really do want health and peace of mind, and spiritual development, then Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount, has clearly shown you how it is to be done. - Emmet Fox
The word that leaves your mouth leaves your control. - Somali folk saying
Let your mouth be the trap of your words. - Zambian folk saying
The wisest animal is the giraffe: it never speaks. - Tanzanian folk saying
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. - Richard Bach
*The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice. -Doug Larson
*The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. - Robert Cushing
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. - Harry S Truman
Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. - Anonymous
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. - Jake Simmons (1901-1981)
We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought. - Emmet Fox
God is here, everywhere present, right now. God is good and that means good exists everywhere, even in the most challenging situations. When we don't see the good, it's not because it is not present but we are simply not aware of the good present. There's a practice you can do to open up to the experience of God's good, called, Pause Power. When you're tempted to say, This is bad, I don't like this, there's no good here, pause, and in the pause say, I don't see the good, but if God's here then there must be some good so I'm going to invite that good to reveal itself to me. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one element of truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans - that moment one commits oneself, then providence moves all. – Anonymous
*In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. - Richard Bach
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. - Richard Bach
We all have God's phone number but the only number we tend to use is 911. We only call in an emergency instead of calling just for daily connection with God. Getting to know God better means that we reach out and create and experience daily connection, as we would with any relationship we value and want to deepen and grow. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. - Jean Anouilh
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown
*Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. - Henry James
*This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - The Dalai Lama
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, THAT is to have been educated in the knowledge of simplicity. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. -Carrie, Sex and the City on HBO
*I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. - Woody Allen
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening....The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. - U.S. Commissioner of Education William Harris, 1889
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
There are many different languages for love. Pay attention to the language someone else is using. Then love them in the way they recognize that they're loved, instead of the way you would prefer to be loved. Talk their language of love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Most of us turn to God when we're really in trouble, when we're stricken by disease or loss or sorrow. Then, when things improve and we feel a little better, it's like we say, Okay, thanks, God, I've got control now, and our lives shrink back to the way they were. The truth is, it is only when we keep coming back to God that our lives truly unfold. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Always remember that the only thought that you need to concern yourself with is the present one. The thoughts of yesterday or of last year do not matter now, because if you can get the present thought right it will make everything else right here and now. - Emmet Fox
Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to the constellations, passion alone is a remedy against boredom. - Joseph Brodsky
As within, so without. You cannot think one thing and produce another. - Emmet Fox
*As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire
*True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
Do we really put Love first in our lives? What do we put before God? Sometimes our anger is more important than God, or our resentment. Sometimes our judgment or being right is more important than God. And when it's more important than God, it means it's more important than being available to love in this moment. How do we put love first? By asking the question: What would Love do here? Then we follow the guidance we receive. - Mary Manin Morrissey
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Charlotte Bronte
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith
All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your
Turning away from Love doesn't happen overnight. We don't get married and think, Well, I'm going to hold back in this relationship. But we get hurt feelings at time and withdraw. We don't have children and plan to neglect them, but we get so busy, and other things take priority. If we are not vigilant and deep in our practice, little by little we turn away from love. Today, commit again to choose Love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*The best way to prepare for tomorrow is to make today's consciousness serene and harmonious. All other good things will follow upon that. - Emmet Fox
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfection, and conceal your own. - Zeno of Cetium (336 - 264 B.C.) Greek philosopher, founder of the Stoic school
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. - Charles Caleb Colton
*Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese proverb
*History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger
God is love, but God is also infinite intelligence, and unless these two qualities are balanced in our lives, we do not get wisdom; for wisdom is the perfect blending of intelligence and love. - Emmet Fox
If we consistently felt our oneness with our partner, we would never look down on our partner's money fears, driving or flying fears, aging fears, or fear of embarrassment. - Hugh Prather in The Little Book of Letting Go
The moment we arrived on earth, we were given bodies, the vehicles that carry our spiritual essence. You and I do not live inside our bodies. Our bodies live inside us. They're the means through which we travel in time in this life journey. None of us knows how long this particular vehicle will last. But rather than worrying about when its warranty might run out, it's much more important to concern ourselves with the journey itself, with the knowledge, hopes and dreams our spirits guide us to along the way. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
We are enrolled in a full time, informal school called, Life. Each day of this school, we have the opportunity to learn lessons. We may like the lessons or hate them, but they are part of the curriculum. The greatest lessons we learn are about love and fear, that every action is either an expression of love, or a call for love. And the great blessing is that every lesson repeats itself until we learn it. - Mary Manin Morrissey
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Ghandi
*Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. - Karl Menninger
Women like silent men. They think they're listening. - Marcel Achard
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. - Abraham Maslow
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. - Walter Bagehot
Believe not all you can hear; tell not all you believe. - Native American proverb
We have lost the sense of belonging in our world and to the God who creates, nurtures, and redeems this world and all its creatures, and we have lost the sense that we are part of a living, changing, dynamic cosmos that has its being in and through God. But we can return consciously. - Sally McFague
*We all fall prey to the kind of thinking that decrees that the future will be better than the present. But, the truth is, we live in an eternal here and now. Don't postpone joy until you find the perfect mate or receive your degree. Experience the aliveness of each moment, because your moment is now. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The Hindu tradition talks about the veil. When we look at someone, we see our perception of that person. When we look with judgment, the veil becomes more opaque. But when we remember God's inclusive love for all of us, the veil thins, and we begin to see one another as our true selves, the children of God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
Compassion operates at the same level as celebration because what is of most moment in compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. It is this awareness of togetherness that urges us to rejoice at another's joy (celebration) and to grieve at another's sorrow. Both dimensions, celebration and sorrow, are integral to true compassion. And this, above all, separates pity from compassion, for it is seldom that we would invite someone we had pity on to a common celebration ... There can be no compassion without celebration and there will be no authentic celebration that does not result in increased compassionate energies. - Matthew Fox
You may be facing a challenging question right now. You may be pondering your life's path. Perhaps you are struggling over a creative new idea or wondering how to parent in a new way. Whatever challenge you encounter, know that your answers exist within you. Others may inspire and assist us, but only we know the resonance in our hearts that says, Yes, this is right. God imbued us with perfect truth meters that we can trust, when we are still, and really listen to the voice for God within. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Alexander Pope
Pick battles important enough to fight and small enough to win. - Johnathan Kozol
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think is laughable. - Johanne Goethe
Distancing others does not bring detachment, but its opposite. Only when you let others into your heart do you become capable of releasing them. - Paul Ferrini
Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. - Oscar Wilde
Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation. - Marianne Williamson
*Notice that the moment you become unhappy is usually the moment you attempt to control another person. - Hugh Prather in The Little Book of Letting Go
Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. - H.W. Longfellow
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. - Brian Tracy
*The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. - George Carlin
Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't even know if you owe. - Mark Twain
There are no accidents in this universe. Everything operates according to perfect law. No thing can happen to us. Everything happens through us. -Mary Manin Morrissey
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are not skin. We are not bones. Our essence is spiritual, and our bodies merely the vehicle for our being. Each person is an invisible spiritual dweller in a human experience, continuing to unfold as a spiritual being even after the transition called death. This life is a only a precious fragment of all that God has in store for us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Human is that moment when the universe becomes aware of itself. - Teilhard de Chardin
Those who enjoy the greatest lives are not extraordinary people, or even ordinary people with something added. They are not necessarily the wealthiest or most professionally acclaimed. Those who sparkle with aliveness are ordinary people with nothing taken away. They have not lost their wonder of the moment. They cherish the presence of a friend; they marvel when a child takes their hand. They find a gift in each moment of living. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There's a thin line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. ~ (unknown)
I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. - Wendy Liebman
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein
When I was growing up my parents had a sandpit... it was a quick-sand pit... I was an only child, eventually. - Stephen Wright
*I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. - Joel Barker
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
The exaltation of one's chosen deity lies not in the condemnation of other images of the Divine, but in the multiplication of meaning through the appreciative recognition of others, a kind of mutual inclusivism. -Diana Eck
The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives. - Albert Einstein
*When you blame others, you give up your power to change. - Douglas Noel
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles du Bois
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck
Old age ain't no place for sissies. - Bette Davis
Every disorder seeks order, all dis-ease can find ease. In partnership with God, we can call forth the divine healing capacities within to work in every area of our lives. Our bodies are precious gifts designed to house our holiness. - Mary Manin Morrissey
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled. - William James
All of us have occasionally felt only half-present or partly alive. We have told half-truths, supplied partial answers and engaged in limited thinking. We use only a small portion of our brains and sometimes withhold a measure of our love. At our very essence, however, we are complete, unblemished beings. The masters are those who have learned to come fully alive to their own nature. They live fully because they know that there is no part of them God does not love. Nothing is withheld. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. - John J. McCloy
*Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. - George Burton
*The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. - Socrates
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes. - Dan Millman
We recognize that while our souls are whole, our existence as humans can be painful and problematic. When we use these challenges to learn greater love, our human lives become richer and more fulfilling and we grow closer to our true nature. A physical wound heals when treated properly and left untreated, it festers. Tending to what ails us restores our capacity to give and receive love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. - James Baldwin
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds. - Michael Dorris
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. - Jack Kornfield
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle
Good Judgment is the outcome of experience...and experience is the outcome of bad judgment. - Vivian Fuchs
I put spot remover on my dog, and now I can't find him anywhere. - Stephen Wright
The first love affair we need to consummate successfully is with ourselves, because only then will we be ready for relationships with others. - Nathaniel Branden
When we have ideas that are limiting or self-defeating, we remember that we are created in the image and likeness of God. As such, we inherit divine qualities and capacities. Within us exists all that is required to bring forth a life of true greatness. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. – Seneca
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. - James Lane Allen
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter
*We heal each other all the time, and don't even realize that we're doing it. Healing comes out of a very simple human relationship - knowing your life matters to another person, and connecting to something larger and unseen. - Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
One's own self conquered is better than all other people. - The Dhammapada
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. - Confucius
This is what I believe: That I am I That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed. - D.H. Lawrence
Whatever reality you find yourself in is capable of being altered by you at any time you want. It is not altered by changing what is outside of you; it's altered by changing how you choose to process your life. -Wayne Dyer
A pool cannot be kept clean and sweet and renewed unless there is an outlet as well as an inlet. It is our business to keep both the inlet and outlet open, and God’s business to keep the stream flowing in and through us. - H. Emilie Cady
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. - Marilyn Ferguson
Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what's going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for. - Barry Neil Kaufman
*Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. - Dag Hammerskjoldd
Work is the curse of the drinking class. - Oscar Wilde
*You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's, only one begins with an R. - Dennis Miller
*Practicing being in service takes the focus off ourselves and looks for how we might help others. When we feel grateful, we naturally want to share ourselves and our good fortune. Then we find that being in service only increases our gratitude and joy. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The Holy Spirit, as we would say in the Christian tradition, or the Spirit, or the Force, wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen. -Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Maria Mitchell
*I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt
*Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. - Henry David Thoreau
It doesn't matter how often you get knocked down; what matters is how often you get back up. - Anonymous
If you never think great thoughts, you will never be greater than you think. - Unknown
If there exists a form of music that is a direct expression of sensuality, it is the Viennese Waltz.... - Max Graf
*The waltz never quite goes out of fashion; it is always just around the corner; every now and then it returns with a bang . . . It is sneaking, insidious, disarming, lovely. . . .The waltz, in fact, is magnificently improper-the art of tone turned lubricious. . . . There is something about a waltz that is irresistible. Try it on the fattest and sedatest or even on the thinnest and most acidulous of women, and she will be ready, in ten minutes, for a stealthy smack behind the door - nay, she will forthwith impart the embarrassing news that her husband misunderstands her and drinks too much and is going to Cleveland, O. on a business trip tomorrow. - H. L. Mencken
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. - Richard Hofstadter
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. - Howard Thurman
What you choose not to look at in your life rules your life. - Lynn Andrews
The grateful person doesn't measure service by the hour, because the grateful person is always in a state of giving. It begins with awareness. We respond lovingly to a child asking for our help. We give a friend a word of encouragement, or do an act of kindness for a stranger. And the greatest beneficiary of our caring is we. It is our own hearts that expand. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. - John Maynard Keynes
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm, that after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. - Julius C. Hare
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history. – Anonymous
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. -Teilhard de Chardin
If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains. -
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